Listening to the games on the radio in the old days

Listening to John Ferguson was like being there. At least it seemed that way. Yeah, WWL was the place to be on Saturday nights. At least until Mac packed... then it began to get a bit more dicey.

I have around a dozen or so that I recorded. The Notre Dame game in Tiger Stadium is one of the best. I have been trying to get the time to get some made but as yet haven't gotten around to it. But one thing is certain...John Ferguson was THE VOICE OF THE TIGERS..

I can still remember listening to the 2 point try in 59 when Cannon, according to the refs, didn't get in the endzone. I can remember laying in my bunk at jump school listening to the Bear and his wishbone beat Charly Mac's Tigers in 67.
I don't think my Dad and missed listening to a game as a kid growing up.

Grew up in Maryland in the 80s and we didn't have cable. but my parents, both LSU grads, had an old Panasonic radio that could pick up the LSU radio broadcast on a clear night if we sat on the roof of the garage.

You can guess where I spent cold, Saturday nights growing up.

I remember listening to my first transister radio that I bought by selling coke bottles at 2 cents apiece. It seemed to me that it was hard to get tickets in order to go to the games back in the 60's and 70's and when you did you took advantage of it by staying until after the stadium was almost empty before you left. You stood on your feet the whole time LSU was on offense yelling your head off until you lost your voice. That is what made Tiger Stadium the place that it is today people to not do that today, they sit on their tails until something happens then they might stand up and yell.

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But, the radio is where it all started when on a wet dreary night in Tiger Stadium on Halloween Night in 1959 J.C. Politz made the call of the centry as far as LSU Football goes. He was doing that game that night because LSU could not get anyone else to do the games so he did it because he loved LSU. Then John Ferguson became the voice of the Tigers made famous by the everyone that had a transister radio where they listened to the games at work, in the woods hunting, on the river from their camps or anywhere where they could listen to the voice of the Tigers make the call of the game that week. I have fond memories of the radio when those who where in the stands had ear plugs on connected to their transister radio in their pockets. It is by all these means that made it popular tp listen to the games on the radio and today if I am not at the game or in a place where I can not watch it on TV then I listen to the radio.

Oh! and that game back in 1959 I had a hard time picking up the game but through the crackling of aitwaves that night I heard J.C. Politz make a call that still sends chills through down my spin and also hearing him at the end of the game when Warren Rabb and Cannon made the stop at the goal line to stop Ole Miss and win the game 7-3.